Word: nonunionized
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...Metro if Publisher Iseman ever wants to sell it. Iseman insisted he has no such plans, but some of the city's numerous Murdoch-haters speculated that the Australian's hidden motive is to fold the ailing Post and use the strike paper as the basis for a new, nonunion daily. More likely, both Murdoch and his allies at the Times want merely to make sure that their distribution networks keep busy and that New Yorkers retain the habit of reading local newspapers?which many abandoned during the 114-day New York newspaper strike...
...1970s. And much of the membership is concentrated in mass-production industries, where union jobs are threatened both by more efficient manufacturing techniques?it takes fewer workers every year to make a car or a ton of steel?and by a transfer of some operations to the largely nonunion Sunbelt. For example, General Motors has opened nine plants in the South since 1973?and kept the United Auto Workers...
...have failed to adjust to an enormous postwar switch in job patterns. Their prime appeal has always been to male factory hands. But manufacturing has gone down in importance, while workers have flooded into wholesale and retail trade, service industries and white-collar occupations like computer programming?all predominantly nonunion...
...Fiorello La Guardia had done during a New York City newspaper strike 33 years earlier. No matter. Soupy Sales and Eartha Kitt read Doonesbury and other comic strips on expanded news shows. New York Post Gossip Writer Diane Judge also went on the air to read her own column. Nonunion reporters at the Daily News passed the time at their 42nd Street offices by writing obituaries for future use. At the Times building across town, police kept an eye on the small group of picketers...
...sometimes more, to cushion members against inflation. Because the raises typically have been built into three-year contracts, employers have to pay the large annual increases even when the inflation rate goes down; since 1975, union wages have tended to go up faster than the inflation rate. Meanwhile, nonunion workers have begun to expect similar-sized raises, and companies pay them-often simply to keep skilled employees from quitting. Since productivity has not come near staying even with the growth of the paychecks-output per hour worked has risen about 2% on average since 1970 -companies have had to cover...